Palliative care
Subtitle: core skills and clinical competencies
By: [edited by] Linda L. Emanuel, S. Lawrence Librach.
Contributors: Emanuel, Linda L.; Librach, S. Lawrence.
Publisher: Saunders/Elsevier
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 705
ISBN-13: 9781416025979
Subjects: Palliative treatment; Palliative Care; Clinical Competence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Palliative care: a quiet revolution in patient care; title: Suffering: the hundred little deaths before dying; title: Comprehensive assessment; title: Communication skills; title: Negotiating goals of care: changing goals along the trajectory of illness; title: Multiple symptoms and multiple illnesses; title: Pain; title: Nausea/vomiting, anorexia/cachexia, and fatigue; title: Depression, anxiety, and delirium; title: Constipation; title: Urinary incontinence; title: Sexuality; title: Dyspnea; title: Loss, bereavement, and adaptation; title: Understanding and respecting cultural differences; title: Advance care planning; title: Responding to requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide; title: Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapies; title: Last hours of living; title: Legal and ethical issues in the United States; title: Hematology/oncology; title: HIV/AIDS; title: Heart disease; title: Kidney failure; title: Gastrointestinal malignancies; title: Neurodegenerative diseases; title: Principles of palliative surgery; title: Chronic diseases and geriatrics; title: Pulmonary palliative medicine; title: Pediatric palliative care; title: Palliative care in the intensive care unit; title: Emergency medicine and palliative care; title: The interdisciplinary team; title: Palliative care nursing; title: Social workers: the connective tissue of the health care system; title: Spiritual care; title: Palliative care in long-term care settings; title: Integrating palliative care into disease management; title: Palliative care services and programs; title: The economic burden of end-of-life illness; title: Palliative care in developing countries; title: App. I: Formulary: medication tables; title: App. II: Coding for physician services related to palliative care; title: App. III: Resources for palliative and end-of-life care.